Linderhof

Gardening, Cooking and Decorating on the Prairie of Kansas

Welcome to Linderhof, our 1920's home on the prairie, where there's usually something in the oven, flowers in the garden for tabletops and herbs in the garden for cooking. Where, when company comes, the teapot is always on and there are cookies and cakes to share in the larder.

Monday, October 22, 2012

A Book, A Cup of Tea and a Macaroon

Tea time at Linderhof

is every afternoon at half past three

(or thereabouts)

A time to stop what we're doing, put the kettle on

and brew a pot of tea.

Generally, my Emile Henry is my every day teapot

And I use that (or one of the wee blue and white ones)

for afternoon tea

But the other day, I had a special tea treat and so . . .

The breakfast room in the afternoon is the "Tea Room"

I used one of my blue and white pots

along with a Spode blue and white cup and saucer and tea plate.

I've had a love affair with mysteries since I read my first Agatha Christie

And when it's just me I tend to read while I take afternoon tea

Mysteries, cozy mysteries

(for I don't like blood and gore -- just a good quiet body in the library found by the heroine much to her dismay!)

Such a peaceful tea! Soon, winter will come giving us more days than we want for sitting around the tea pot. October is fading fast....we have been gone most of October...I am ready to sit a while, want a tea just like this one.

Hello Martha,Your tea time is lovely. I enjoy a good mystery too and I am right now reading the Tea Shop Mysteries by Laura Childs. They are fun with not too much gore. Have you read them? Your blue and white is always so charming and that macaroon; yum! I shared my new blue and white this week. Thank you for coming to tea and have a beautiful day.

It always seems as if you have been to your house for a visit when reading your post! I enjoyed visiting your town when we went to see my son in Kirksville, Mo. He was in Oregon and we loved visiting him there and the beautiful scenery. Fortunately, he is back in Texas with his job. Lovely teapot!

You are so right about watching Dolly and the treats. When Mother stays with me we always have espresso after lunch with a cookie. One for her, one for me and one for the Sous Chef. After she leaves, Lucy is like a Rolly Polly, she can barely move her stomach is so big. But its so hard to say no to those pleading eyes!